"MISS LARA!" Viola's scream cut across the orphanage grounds as she threw open the back passenger door, where Sebastian had gone completely quiet and still, despite her attempt to keep him awake by talking the whole time she drove like a mad woman.
She had covered his body with a blanket during the drive but now she moved to pull him out and found her arms shaking too badly to manage it alone.
Miss Lara came running down shortly after, along with several of the older girls from the orphanage who had caught the thick scent of blood in the air before they even reached the door.
"What is going on? What happened to you?" Miss Lara asked, moving forward and immediately seeing the dagger buried in Viola's back and the blood covering every inch of her, but the young woman barely registered her own condition as she grabbed Miss Lara's arm and pulled her urgently to the back passenger door where her husband lay in the back seat, his wounds still smoking and his body barely moving.
